Month: October 2018

Publications of IAS made available on the internet

Thanks to a collaboration with Carl Malamud and the Public Resource organization, fifty-three books published by the IASc are now available in high-end digital format as an ‘Indian Academy of Sciences Collection’ on the Internet Archive, and more will be added soon. These digitized versions will soon also be available on the IASc website.

Peer Community In: A free recommendation process of unpublished scientific papers based on peer reviews

The current publication model for scientific papers is riddled with problems. But what can be an alternative? Thomas Guillemaud, Benoit Facon, François Massol and Denis Bourguet describe the pros and cons of the recently started PCI initiative that can potentially avoid some of the pitfalls of the present system.